The word slacker, recently come into good usage in the United States as a designation for a successful shirker of conscription, is a substantive derived from the English verb to slack, which was born as university slang and remains so to this day.

To give you an example, I sometimes portray myself as a slacker, which is very true, but when I go back and look at my high school teacher comments on report cards, you see that there are recurring patterns.

Neil: I had a boss who never got a cold and believed EVERY person calling in sick was a 'slacker' - it is hard to understand what a person doesn't experience - I wish we did have some of those body experience/exchange things - I know that a lot of migraine suffers would probably like to do what I do and give a full sensory exchange to their doctor and see how the treatment changes!